engineer Apollinaire Lebas
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Apollinaire Lebas was a 19th-century French engineer best known for overseeing the transport and installation of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| engineer Apollinaire Lebas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5242382 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: engineer Apollinaire Lebas Context triple: [Obelisk of Luxor, erectedBy, engineer Apollinaire Lebas]
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A.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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B.
Charles Laisné
Charles Laisné was a French architect known for his involvement in the design of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur Basilica.
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C.
Hector Lefuel
Hector Lefuel was a 19th-century French architect best known for his major role in completing and expanding the Louvre under Napoleon III, helping define the Second Empire architectural style.
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D.
Georges Récipon
Georges Récipon was a French sculptor best known for his ornate allegorical sculptures and monumental works in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Édouard Vaillant
Édouard Vaillant was a prominent French socialist politician and revolutionary leader associated with the Paris Commune and the early socialist movement in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: engineer Apollinaire Lebas Target entity description: Apollinaire Lebas was a 19th-century French engineer best known for overseeing the transport and installation of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris.
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A.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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B.
Charles Laisné
Charles Laisné was a French architect known for his involvement in the design of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur Basilica.
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C.
Hector Lefuel
Hector Lefuel was a 19th-century French architect best known for his major role in completing and expanding the Louvre under Napoleon III, helping define the Second Empire architectural style.
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D.
Georges Récipon
Georges Récipon was a French sculptor best known for his ornate allegorical sculptures and monumental works in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Édouard Vaillant
Édouard Vaillant was a prominent French socialist politician and revolutionary leader associated with the Paris Commune and the early socialist movement in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French engineer
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer |
French government
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linked to:
Government of France
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| fieldOfWork | civil engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor | engineering expertise in large-scale monument transport ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | overseeing the transport and installation of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris ⓘ |
| notableProject | Luxor Obelisk relocation project ⓘ |
| notableWork |
installation of the Luxor Obelisk on Place de la Concorde
ⓘ
transport of the Luxor Obelisk to Paris ⓘ |
| occupation | engineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
erection of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris
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transport of the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to France ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Egypt
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Paris ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Luxor, Egypt
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linked to:
Luxor
Place de la Concorde ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: engineer Apollinaire Lebas Description of subject: Apollinaire Lebas was a 19th-century French engineer best known for overseeing the transport and installation of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.